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Top 10 art exhibitions in 2012

Our pick of the must see art exhibitions in 2012

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Most viewed 2012 art exhibitions

  1. Out of Focus: Photography
  2. Bauhaus: Art as Life
  3. Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist
  4. Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012
  5. Yayoi Kusama
  6. Damien Hirst
  7. Picasso Prints: The Vollard Suite
  8. Picasso and Modern British Art
  9. Remote Control
  10. British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age
More most viewed art exhibitions
  • 1
    Yayoi Kusama, Self-Obliteration (Net Obsession Series) c1966
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    Yayoi Kusama

    Until Tue Jun 5, Tate Modern

    Survey of the octagenarian Japanese artist including her early years of performance, actions and protest art in 1960s New York.
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  • 2
    The Source

    Picasso and Britain

    Until Sun Jul 15, Tate Britain

    Including over 150 works, this exhibition looks at Picasso's lifelong connections with Great Britain.
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  • 3
    Aquatics Centre for the London 2012 Olympic Games
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    British Design 1948-2012

    Until Sun Aug 12, V&A

    The V&A bigs up British innovation in this major survey of postwar design and creativity.
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  • 4
    Gillian Wearing, Trauma, 2000

    Gillian Wearing

    Until Sun Jun 17, Whitechapel Gallery

    YBA artist Gillian Wearing's revealing film and photographic projects play with notions of identity and disguise.
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  • 5
    Pharmacy

    Damien Hirst

    Apr 5-Sep 9, Tate Modern

    Brit-artist Damien Hirst's first major retrospective in the UK includes his pickled shark and diamond skull (the latter for the first 12 weeks only).
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  • 6
    Bauhaus Art and Life

    Bauhaus: Art as Life

    Until Sun Aug 12, Barbican Centre

    This exhibition explores all aspects of the pioneering and influential turn-of-last-century German art school.
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  • 7
    Thomas Heatherwick's 'Rolling Bridge'
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    Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary

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    May 31-Sep 30, V&A

    A major solo exhibition covering projects worked on by Heatherwick Studio over the past two decades.
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  • 8
    Rachel Whiteread, detail of the Frieze on the Whitechapel gallery facade

    Rachel Whiteread

    Jun 15-Feb 28 2013, Whitechapel Gallery

    Rachel Whiteread, who won the Turner Prize in 1993 with 'House', creates new work for the Whitechapel's facade.
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  • 9
    Yoko Ono, Smile Film No. 5, 1968
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    Yoko Ono

    Jun 19-Sep 9, Serpentine Gallery

    The Serpentine gallery celebrates Yoko Ono's contribution to music, film and performance art through new and existing works.
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